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Is there still space in British politics for a Ukip-style party?

Matthew Goodwin

Since the 2016 vote for Brexit many have argued that Ukip’s revolt has, finally, come to an end. The referendum and the vote to leave the EU fulfilled Ukip’s raison d’être. In the aftermath, the party that could once claim to be the third most popular movement suffered an almost total collapse of support and has now been forced to rally behind a largely unknown leader named Henry Bolton.

Ukip’s s collapse – like its rise - has been striking. As we discuss in a new essay on the 2017 election, compared to 2015 Ukip’s number of candidates crashed from 624 to 377, its share of the national vote slumped from almost 13 per cent to 1.8 per cent, lower even than the British National Party polled…